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ISTANBUL GAY PRI ACTIVISTS STAGE ANNUAL RALLY FIANCE OF BAN
The phrase "Gay Pri" was chosen as a chant durg the first march. In keepg wh the tim, "Gay Power" had been nsired, but acrdg to activist L. Craig Schoonmaker, at the time, gay dividuals lacked any real power, but they did have pri.
By 1974, the march had begun g the more universal name of Gay Liberatn Day. Manford rried a sign readg, "Parents of Gays: Une Support for Our Children. However, wh a year, gay life New York would face s greatt threat.
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As the 1982 para was marchg up Sixth Avenue, Nathan Fa, Larry Kramer, and others were rporatg the Gay Men's Health Crisis rponse to a new disease that was begng to spread through the gay muny. Their mands clud creased fundg for AIDS rearch, modifitns the CDC's approach to the disease, and chang to the Catholic Church's posn on AIDS preventn and gay Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis via Getty Imag. Though attacks of this nature had been gog on for s, the murrs of Brandon Teena 1993 and Matthew Shepard 1998 creased the public awarens of and agast homophobic crime.
Turkish activists have fied a ban to stage an annual gay pri march Istanbul a month after Turkey’s electn followed a homophobic and hate-filled mpaign. Pri trac s roots back to the gay rights movement of the 1960s. Public monstratns advotg for equaly for the gay muny also occurred Los Angel, as well as a “Gay In” San Francis at Goln Gate Park.